Bio
Miriam Ticktin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College and co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Ilana Feldman) of In the Name of Humanity: the Government of Threat and Care (Duke University Press, 2010), along with various other articles and book chapters. She is a founding editor of the journal Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development. Her research has focused in the broadest sense on what it means to make political claims in the name of a universal humanity.